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The penitent pardoned a treatise wherein is handled the duty of confession of sin…
The penitent pardoned a treatise wherein is handled the duty of confession of sin and the privilege of the pardon of sin : together with a discourse of Christs ascension into heaven and of his coming again from heaven : wherein the opinion of the Chiliasts is considered and solidly confuted / being the sum and substance of several sermons preached by that faithful servant of Christ, Mr. Christopher Love ...The penitent pardoned a treatise wherein is handled the duty of confession of sin and the priviledge of the pardon of sin : together with a discourse of Christs ascension into heaven and of his coming again from heaven : wherein the opinion of the Chiliasts is considered and solidly confuted / being the sum and substance of several sermons preached by that faithful servant of Christ, Mr. Christopher Love ...
London: printed for John Rothwell, 1657
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Fifthly, They dare not run into the crowd of employments, that so they might forget the gawlings, of conscience, as Cain did, Gen. 4. Cain to put off the troubles of his conscience, would fall to buying, building, and drowning himself in the world, that so he might hear no more. A pardoned sinner doth not thus, but if conscience suggests guilt, he prays to God that conscience might speak throughly and to the heart.
Fifthly, They dare not run into the croud of imployments, that so they might forget the gawlings, of conscience, as Cain did, Gen. 4. Cain to put off the troubles of his conscience, would fall to buying, building, and drowning himself in the world, that so he might hear no more. A pardoned sinner doth not thus, but if conscience suggests guilt, he prayes to God that conscience might speak throughly and to the heart.
Sixthly, A godly man doth not wallow and continue in a custom of sin, that so custom in his sin, might take away conscience of his sin. Ephes. 4. 19. Who being past feeling, 1have given themselves over to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. Wicked men give themselves over to a custom in sin, that so they might not have conscience to smite them for sin. They are like a Smiths dog, a strange dog that comes to a Smiths forge cannot abide to have the sparkles of fire fly about him;2 but that dog that hath always been accustomed to the shop, can sleep still on, and it never troubles him: wicked men are like Smiths dogs used to the shop, though flashes of hell fire are cast about them, yet they sleep still and are not awakened; but godly men do not make use of custom in sin to lull them asleep in their sweet lusts.